A new, federally funded project will test students’ ability to learn fractions on mobile apps through the theory of “embodied cognition"—or, to put it in non-science speak, manipulating and moving ...

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The Fraction Spacecraft intervention study’s aim is to compare the effects of virtual and concrete manipulatives in fourth and fifth graders learning of fractions and decimal numbers, as well as the ...

In this chapter, we look beyond the whole numbers at other numbers that are included in school mathematics in grades pre-K to 8, particularly in the upper grades. We first look at the rational numbers ...